2011/5/6 Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com>: > Hackers, Community members: > > As some of you already know, several important community assets are held > in the personal name of Marc Fournier for historical reasons. These > assets include several DNS domains (including postgresql.org), our SSL > key, and a Canadian trademark, and possibly a server as well in the future. > > For years, we have had the issue that if anything happened to Marc, > getting control of these assets could be difficult and cause us weeks of > wasted time, and perhaps even result in www.postgresql.org being offline > for days or weeks. Even to date, we've had issues where problems have > happened while Marc was away and been unable to resolve them quickly. > > We have, however, come up with a potential plan to change this. Marc > has agreed to transfer the community assets to a new Canadian nonprofit > which we set up for the purpose. The PostgreSQL Core Team supports this > solution, and as such I've been talking to Canadian attorneys about > setting up the NPO (we need an entity in Canada because of the > trademark). The Funds Group has approved spending SPI money to pay for > legal and operational fees for the corporation. > > Of course, a Canadian nonprofit could also act as a regional > fundraiser/funder for events in Canada if anyone gets motivated to carry > this out. > > For simplicity, the new NPO would initially be run by a small appointed > board, initially consisting of Marc Fournier, Dave Page, Chris Browne > and myself. We'd have a first board meeting after incorporation and > select additional/alternate board members at that time. > > If someone gets motivated to build up Canadian community activity, the > membership of the NPO could be expanded in the future, and new board > members could be elected. Otherwise, the nonprofit could run under a > stewardship board indefinitely.
I think it might be better if the association don't need (or have ) activity other than 'technical' and to set up another nonprofit association for real activity. > > At this point, I am talking to attorneys about incorporation and bylaws. > So now is a very good time for anyone in the community to voice > questions, objections, ideas, concerns, or alternatives, now would be a > good time to present them. no. it is a good idea and great you handle that. Thank you. > > -- > Josh Berkus > PostgreSQL Experts Inc. > http://pgexperts.com > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advoc...@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy > -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
